Obviously, members of Dixmont American Legion Post No. 201 are working hard to make sure they have a good turnout for their first annual yard sale, because several of them have been in touch with me.

That fundraiser is 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, July 29, and Sunday, July 30, at the Gold Crest Snowmobile Club on Cates Road off Route 7 in that community.

Legion Vice Commander James York wants readers to know proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit the organization’s various projects, including the Dixmont Veterans’ Memorial Park and sponsoring candidates to Boys and Girls State.

He wrote, “the event will be held rain or shine.”

Legion member John Olsen expanded on efforts of members to raise money for the veterans memorial which, he explained, will be located on Route 9 next to the Dixmont town office and dedicated next summer during Dixmont’s bicentennial celebration.

“This memorial is well under way,” he wrote, “and three black granite stones” will have engraved on them the names of all veterans, from the Revolutionary War to Iraq, who enlisted while living in Dixmont.

Olson added “part of the ongoing effort” to raise funds for the memorial consists of selling “pavers” to be placed in front of the memorial, and it is this portion of the project that will benefit from the yard sale.

Planners are hoping you will not only make donations to the yard sale, but attend as well. “We would like to see a big turnout,” Olsen wrote.

If you have contributions, call York at 234-4152, or Post Commander Earl Welch at 234-2148.

Regarding the pavers, Olson wrote that “we are looking for people who may have some ties to Dixmont” to either purchase a paver or make a donation to the project.

For more information about purchasing pavers or making a cash donation, call Dixmont Treasurer Shirlene Lindsey at the town office, 234-2294, or write her at P.O. Box 100, Dixmont 04932.

Marion Bailey invites you to a special summer supper 4:30-6 p.m. Saturday, July 29, at East Orrington Congregational Church, 38 Johnson Mill Road in Orrington.

She reports the menu includes “meatloaf, potato salad, veggies, corn bread, pie and coffee.”

Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children.

“Come and enjoy our air-conditioned dining facility,” she added of the event that benefits the church budget.

Peg Robertson, secretary of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Blue Hill Fire Department, invites you to attend its annual yard sale.

That fundraiser begins at 8 a.m. Saturday, July 29, at the firehouse in Blue Hill.

Birdsacre will celebrate its annual Cordelia Stanwood Day with an open house from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 30, at the Cordelia Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary in Ellsworth.

A barbecue, donated in part by Shaw’s Supermarket in Ellsworth, will be provided, and artist Alan F. Simpson will demonstrate his half-century of experience carving songbirds and raptors as well as display his studio collection.

The nature center’s gift shop will feature wildlife artwork, home-crafted Salmon Wesley Adirondack chairs and Russian birch bark items.

Pappy the Barred Owl and his friends will greet visitors, as will representatives of Fields Pond Audubon Center in Holden and other groups.

The public is invited to attend.

Gary Webb reminds relatives the Webb Reunion begins at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, July 30, at Moose Point State Park in Searsport.

You are asked to bring your lunch and an auction item.

In case of inclement weather, the gathering will relocate to the Masonic Hall on Main Street in Searsport.

For more information, call Webb at 348-6929.

Jan Ashton, president of Brewer Christian Food Cupboard, wrote recently that when the organization lost one of its two freezers to “old age,” it also lost all the contents.

To rectify the situation, food cupboard volunteers Bette Russell and Jean Beers went door-to-door, soliciting funds to purchase a new freezer.

Thanks to the generosity of area business owners, “their employees, friends and family and individuals from the community who heard of our plight,” Ashton continued, enough money was collected to purchase a new freezer and fill it again.

One local couple even purchased and delivered frozen goods for the new freezer.

“The community’s generosity and support has been heartwarming and very much appreciated,” Ashton wrote in extending a “very sincere thank you to all who have helped.”

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; 990-8288.